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(Day 4) - Reflections a la Tom Yum Noodles Labels: Surprise Me God experiment
It had been a slow slooooow day and I was really enjoying it to the fullest.
I wiled my day away finishing up two books, and starting on yet another. Oh, to be able to just settle back and not be having "omigosh! D.E.A.D.L.I.N.E. tomorrow!!" suddenly barge into my mind with all the certainties of an uzi-wielding terrorist.
It just utterly relaxes.
It was close to 1am and I was having supper - tom yum noodles!, when I just started spacing out. I was suddenly reminded of God's great love.
Scenario.
You're a Christian serving faithfully and you turn up on sundays week after week. You have had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ for close to 7 years now, and you love Him wholeheartedly. You know that He loves you too. Now, question.
What is God's love to you?
Will it be shocking to realise that you've all the model answers readily prepared; John 3:16, Psalm 107:1, Deuteronomy 7:9, paraphrasing according to biblical scripture is wonderful.. But perhaps, just perhaps, you're stumped when asked what is God's love to you personally? That deep down inside you're hardpressed to come up with an answer that would satisfy you.
It happens to me.
Have we lost understanding of what is most basic of all emotions... Coming from the God of love Himself? A child would have answered as only how he/she knows how to: Honestly, sincerely, and with no pretenses.
I guess our love depends on the reciever most of the time. Let a thousand people pass in front of us, and we will not feel the same about each one. It's like a regulated love.
Even when we find a few we can love, our feelings still fluctuate. How they treat us affects how we love them.
Not so with the God of love. The contradicting God that chooses to surprise me with a love that I least expected, and more importantly.. I least deserve.
God loves me simply because He chooses to do so.
He loves me when I feel unlovely.
He loves me when no one loves me.
He loves me. Always. No matter what.
And all these amazing reminders over tom yum noodles..
